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Perhaps China will start to reconsider allowing the unthinkable - reunification with the South. If so, then the only matter left to decide is who will pay for it.
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I don't think South Korea wants reunification on those terms - where it would have to practically wreck it's own economy by adopting the basket case that is the North.
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I wouldn't take too much comfort from "China Kinda Hates North Korea." Kinda is the operative modifier. Kim Jong Un (aka Pudgy) kinds hates the West more.
[Hurriyet] From the beginning, the fact that the regime of Bashir al-Assad in Syria has been a dictatorial police state has been used as an excuse to turn a blind eye to the brutality of the opposition groups, especially against Alawites and Christians. Then, after facts started to be revealed in Western media, al-Qaeda-linked groups were held responsible for such atrocities even though it is still very difficult to draw a clear line between "the opposition" and al-Qaeda in Syria. It is true that the presence of al-Qaeda and its brutal attacks plays into the hands of the al-Assad regime which is eager to define all those in opposition as "terrorists" and is trying to legitimize the brutality of the regime forces as "war on terror."
Nevertheless, it is also true that the so-called opposition ceased to be a real threat to the civil population in Syria after the whole affair turned into a brutal civil war. Besides, Christians in the Middle East have been among the first victims of radical Islamist groups. We should not forget that thousands of Iraqi Christians had to immigrate to Syria after the civil war there, even if it is an inconvenient truth that it was Syria which was a safe haven for Christians.
As for the Turkish government, it first refused to acknowledge the existence of al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and then refused to accept the fact that it is often very difficult to differentiate "the opposition" and radical Islamist groups like the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Moreover, Turkey continued to support "the opposition" in "its legitimate fight against the regime." Now, the Turkish government is complaining about the campaigns of the Armenian diaspora, who have started to accuse Turkey of supporting the so-called opposition after a recent incident in an Armenian town. This campaign started after ISIL moved toward Latakia, and Armenians who lived on their way in Kasab had to flee to Latakia and Beirut. In the eyes of Armenians, it has become a symbolic act against Armenians, since it reminds them of the tragedy that befell Armenians who had to flee Turkey because of the deportations and massacres during World War I.
Needless to say, "the Armenian issue" continues to be a major bone of contention between Armenians who demand the recognition of the "Armenian genocide" and Turkey, which refuses to acknowledge this sort of grave crime against humanity. Nowadays, the Turkish government is accusing the Armenian diaspora of using the Kasab incident as a hostile tool against Turkey and giving al-Assad a helpful hand. It is in the middle of this war of words that two elderly Armenian women from Kasab were handled to Turkish authorities by the "Syrian opposition" and transported to the only Armenian village in the region, Vakıflı, near Antakya. This is how poor women who were hoping to go to Latakia found themselves in a border village in Turkey, they told journalists who interviewed them. Nevertheless, they are being portrayed as if they are the symbols of Turkey's friendly politics concerning Syrian Armenians. Such politics do not stand any chance of convincing anybody, whether friend or foe.
As Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said, it is true that "Turkey conveyed to the Armenian community and to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... its willingness to help in the evacuation of Armenians in Kasab." Well, but one first has to answer this question; "Why evacuate Armenians from Kasab?" There are many other questions which should follow: Why do they want to flee to Latakia or Beirut? Why are the Christians of the Middle East the first victims of the changing Middle East? I think Turkey had better play a more positive and convincing policy for the peaceful future in the region, and I still believe that that is the mission of Davutoğlu, despite all the turbulence in Turkish foreign policy.
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it is also true that the so-called opposition ceased to be a real threat to the civil population in Syria after the whole affair turned into a brutal civil war
Either the author has a confused motion of English grammar, or just confused.
[Dawn] While the court was quick to convict Sawan Masih for blasphemy, the case against the men who burned down Joseph colony is proceeding at a snail's pace.
It started with an accusation and ended in arson; on March 9, 2013, two churches and around 200 houses in Lahore's Joseph Colony were set ablaze by a mob of hundreds of people over an alleged act of blasphemy committed by one Sawan Masih.
Masih, a billiard centre owner, was accused by his friend Imran Shahid of derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!). Soon afterwards a mob surrounded the locality, where the police had already enforced an evacuation the previous night, and burnt all the houses except for five or six which somehow did not catch fire. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Continued on Page 49
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[Investors Business Daily] Islamofascism: With an eye toward the 2016 election, the radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the framework for a political party in America that seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting bloc. The results of the presidential election of 2012 must have been provided a very strong impetus.
'Muslim voters have the potential to be swing voters in 2016," said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, whose membership reads like a Who's Who of Brotherhood front groups. "Benign-sounding" to some possibly.
"We are aiming to bring more participation from the Muslim community." Yet another Democratic party adjunct, reach-out organization.
USCMO also aims to elect Islamists in Washington, with the ultimate objective of "institutionalizing policies" favorable to Islamists -- that is, Shariah law. That would be in addition to those already appointed and unknown number of sleeper agents.
This development bears careful monitoring in light of the U.S. Brotherhood's recently exposed goal to wage a "civilization jihad" against America that explicitly calls for infiltrating the U.S. political system and "destroying (it) from within." "Civilized jihad" is simply a platform of the party. Hopefully Amish scales will begin to finally fall away.
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"Yet another Democratic Party adjunct" > Yes-n-No.
The Lefties + ACLU + anti-US OWG Globalists will allow it to be established and protected, but over time, as the US pulls back across the world, the MB in Amerika will expand to eliminate the GOP-DEMS from power.
As already noted on the MSM-Net, + as per the "Great Game", why should the MB + By-then-Nuclear Hard Boyz accept inferior status when their Globalism-happy, non/anti-Muslim rivals are SSSOOOOOOOO ecstatic about weakening themselves.
Well, no road taxes for example, don't say "There are none", taxes exist on Gasoline, for example, and you'll pay them, Like it or not.
The electric car folks want to screw you, You pay much more for an electric, (Oh well, there's no gas)Instead of Pay as you go, which is normal, every time you fill up, you pay tax, no tax, no roads.
So, the electric car folks have the tax built in, but the Givermnt doesn't see any of this.
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the radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the framework for a political party in America
Toss those son-of-bitches out! They are a subversive group hell bent on undermining the U.S. The current radical left regime is too blinded and obsessed with the Tea Party, gun owners, conservatives and veterans as subversive groups. They don't view radical mooselimbs as their enenmy. The IRS is their personal junk yard dog to carry out there agenda.
BLUF [Bottom line up front]
[American Spectator] My humble observation is that most long-term poverty is caused by self-sabotage by individuals. Drug use. Drunkenness. Having children without a family structure. Gambling. Poor work habits. Disastrously unfortunate appearance. Above all, and counted in the preceding list, psychological problems (very much including basic laziness) cause people to be unemployed, have poor or no work habits, and enter and stay in poverty. Did Ben actually use the "L" word ?
Impoverished people have personal problems. They may have had terrible childhoods. They may have been the victims of abuse. They are often the victims of their own abuse of drugs and alcohol. But they are not the victims of corporations or of the Federal Reserve. Their sad backgrounds lead them into self-destruction.
Is there any public policy that can help them? We just don't know so far. But whipping up hate against the successful simply cannot do it. There is no connecting mechanism between envy and greater productivity. Quite the opposite. Envy legitimizes class hatred and idleness (see "higher education -- 2014") and produces nothing.
Class hatred is a favorite tool of communists.
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'Human free will' is not a term found in most lefty documents other than to repudiate its existence. To them we're all creatures of our DNA and programming (natural or man made) deserving to be ruled in their hierarchical political domain.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
